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<p class="MsoNormal">For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>September 13, 2018<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">CONTACT: Christine Lewis, BOLI Communications Director, 971-673-0841<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Legacy Hospitals notified of more than $5 million in civil penalties for meal and rest period violations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Wage and hour investigation uncovers more than 5,156 violations<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">PORTLAND, OR—Legacy Meridian Park Hospital, Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center and Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center has each received separate Notices of Intent to Assess Civil Penalties
from the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) the agency announced today that could total $5,156,000 in civil penalties for allegations of 5,156 meal and rest period violations in aggregate. These documents are the findings of BOLI’s Wage and Hour Division
investigations and will become final on September 25th unless a contested case hearing is requested by the respondent(s) within that time.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">$5,156,000 represents the largest potential assessment of civil penalties in the agency’s history. BOLI assessed $276,690 in civil penalties against Legacy Emanuel in November of 2017 for meal
and rest period violations, which Legacy did not contest and paid in full. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">During 2017 investigations, wage and hour compliance specialists found willful failure to provide appropriate meal periods on 2,226 occasions by Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center,
including the 5W Labor and Delivery Department. Additionally, 1,391 willful failures to provide appropriate meal periods were found at Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center, and an additional 1,267 at Legacy Meridian Park Hospital. In addition, the Wage and Hour
Division found the respondent willfully failed to provide appropriate rest periods to 272 employees during investigations at all three hospitals combined.
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">BOLI is assessing $1,000 per violation, the maximum penalty, alleging that the violations were willful because management knew or should have known about meal and rest period
requirements and failed to comply with the law. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">BOLI initiated a series of investigations after receiving multiple employee complaints against the hospital system.
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<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Under Oregon law, employers must provide one 30-minute unpaid meal break to anyone working a shift of six hours or more. Businesses must also provide two paid
10-minute rest breaks in an eight-hour shift and three such breaks in any shift longer than 10 hours.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Employees</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> with wage and hour claims or complaints may contact the Wage and Hour Division at (971) 673-0844 or via email at
</span><a href="mailto:whdemail@boli.state.or.us"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">whdemail@boli.state.or.us</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">. Employers seeking compliance guidance may contact the agency’s Technical Assistance for Employers hotline at
(971) 673-0824. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.oregon.gov/BOLI/pages/press.aspx">Read the Notices of Intent here.</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F4E79">Christine E. Lewis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F4E79">Legislative and Communications Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79">Direct: 971.673.0841<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79">Cell: 503.382.7934<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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